Agoraphilia

Is anyone still checking this blog in the hope that I might start blogging again? If so, you're in luck! To publicize my new book, Eco...

There’s a meme floating around that the storyline of Breaking Bad constitutes a scathing indictment of the U.S. healthcare system. The lat...

Everyone’s talking about the lab-grown meat burger . I’ve been expecting this for years, and I think it’s extremely cool. I love me some s...

I just posted this on Facebook, and I thought I might as well post it here as well. This is the marginal utility theory of Daylight Savin...

Anyone wondering what kind of projects have been keeping me from blogging lately? Well, here's one... Call for Abstracts Economics ...

Would you pay good money for accurate predictions about important events, such as election results or military campaigns? Not if the U.S. Co...

The Foundation for Economic Education recently invited me to join its flagship publication, The Freeman, as a regular contributor. It jus...

I plan to vote on Tuesday, for the same reasons I enunciated eight years ago . Nevertheless, I respect the position of libertarians who cho...

I just learned today that the Laemmle Sunset 5, a theater famous for showing independent films, shut down late last year. The theater's...

My father sent the following email to a group of family and friends: Penn State’s NCAA Punishment: 1. A fine of $60 million, which is appro...

Some people are touting the statistics reported here , which show that the national debt has increased by a smaller percentage under Obama t...

As in every year since 2005, I’ve again built a model of the U.S. News & World Report ("USN&WR") law school rankings. T...

Huzzah for U.S. News and World Report! The most recent edition of its law school rankings includes the median LSAT and GPA of each school’...

Former student Gabe Krupa, remembering a lecture I gave on the topic of misleading graphs and statistics, alerted me to this graphic showin...